Attempt to locate and analyse genetic material from our recent encounters.
The human male may be able to identify us, we should attempt to prevent it from doing so. Possibly Maria could be valuable in this endeavour once she matures. For now we should perform minor modifications to our appearance to reduce the probability of recognition.
You go through the clothes you wore last night, looking for any viable genetic samples. You find a couple bloodstains on your jeans and suck at them until your body informs you that you have acquired a viable sample. You then turn your attention to the currently unconscious maria. You lock lips with her and perform a through oral sampling of her genetic material. Your human mind is confused and somewhat terrified at the implications of your sampling behavior, so you remove the incident from her memory.
You stare into a mirror and by combining Maria's human cosmetic equipment with your natural ability to make minor alterations to your body you change your appearance to the point where the human male you attacked last night will likely not recognize you.
Search the internet for info on the old man. Also, learn more about Tarn. You seem to recall the name from somewhere.
You attempt to search the internet for the man, but with only his image to go by, and with no way to transfer pictures from your mind to the inferior human planetwide network your search proves quite fruitless.
While you are searching Maria wakes up. She has become aware of your fate and is for all intents and purposes your daughter. She expresses excitement at the prospect of becoming an actual alien, and begs you to hatch her immediately. You inform her that a disappearing roommate is a good way to blow ones cover. She volunteers to drop all her classes and tell everybody she is incapable of handling college life should you require the services of her mosquito form. You promise to consider her offer.
Maria spends the next 30 minutes drilling you on Arthropod biology and society. You answer her questions to the best of your ability. Laura interupts your Q&A session asking what the hell the two of you are up too. Maria quickly explains that she is giving you a practical demonstration of Live action roleplaying, a super niche human activity. Laura seems to by her explanation and leaves, calling you both "freaky nerds". You tell Maria to resume her regular human sleeping activities for the time being, and to make up another good excuse should the RA find you missing from bed.
Create a larva, and go find more humans to interface with. Another trip to a public restroom, perhaps?
You instruct your body to spend the last of your birthing protein to create a spider larva. It comes out the same size as your mosquito larva, but brown and covered in fuzz. You place the larva in your hair and leave the building. You cross campus and find another restroom. You aquire and consume some more... discarded genetic material. Your human interface system informs you that it will be able to upgrade itself
twice upon digesting and processing the newly acquired genetic data.
Being a 6.5 heavy set woman might be a problem in the "bro" crowd so we should start going after same sex and maybe end up with a hot bisexual and get the males from there...
You scratch an explicit message soliciting homosexual human encounters onto each of the metal toilet paper dispencers in the bathroom. You are not sure weather or not this is a good idea, so you leave Maria's number, instead of your own, after each message. You call your new daughter and inform that she may be playing receptionist and planning 'human encounters'. She agrees to inform you if anybody responds to your solicitation. You once again removing the offending memories from your human mind. You consider altering her... preferences... should your current course of actions prove profitable.
Lets leave a time and a place that we can meet the old man written on a piece of paper marked with reward pheromone and hidden at the site of our previous meeting. The meeting place should be somewhere away from our dormitory. If we meet with them we should ascertain if they are of any value to our infiltration of the university, if they are not, we should have them assume their mosquito form and retrieve resources from locations unrelated to the university. Preferably from remote locations such as hikers or hunters. Our first mosquito should be cautious and seek out unarmed targets that are alone and vulnerable. High-density populations should be avoided to reduce the risk of being seen. We will need to arrange a meeting for them to return to.
We should have a lair that is not directly related to us, we could work upon infesting the entire population of one of the other dormitories and siting our lair underneath it.
When Maria matures she could set about investigating the other nearby dormitories and rating them according to their vulnerability to infestation.
You leave a note at the screen of your second successful infestation instructing your newest offspring to meet you in the forest west of campus at 6:00pm. You cover the note in reward pheromone, and grab some breakfast. You instruct Maria to scout out some of the other dormitories in search of viable locations to establish a lair. You then head off to class.
English 101 honors-Your professor is Dr. Edmund Crane
-Dr. Crane has had his works of fiction published before
-The student sitting on the far left side is James
-Your human mind quickly develops a crush on James
-Your human mind arranges it so that she is in James' group for an upcoming project
-You have been assigned 30-60 minutes of English homework
-You math professor insists that everybody address him by his first name, Joe
-Joe's father is victor green, the head coach of Lovecraft Memorial's highly successful basketball program
-Your syllabus seems to imply this class will be incredibly easy
-Most of the other students in this class seem to be human males here on athletic scholarships
-You are one of only two females in the whole class
You grab lunch at the on campus Panda Express before heading to your geology class, only to find the following note on the door.
This section of freshman geology has been canceled due to the professor contracting a rare condition that renders him adverse to sunlight. The instructor of this course is now teaching a 9:00pm-12:00am section of the class with the lecture on Wednesday and the lab on Monday. Students enrolled in the canceled class can transfer to the 9:00 section free of charge, or apply for a full refund at the cashiers office. Students looking to add or change classes should see the register no later than Friday.
You head to the pre-determined spot in the forrest and wait for your offspring to arrive. He shows up early, at 5:30. A quick interview confirms that he has reached pupa status. He introduces himself as Horace Greece. He is a janitor who works the night shift in the heavily guarded hoover building. You quickly change the topic to his place of employment. You find what follows to be quite enlightening.
-He describes an object in the Hoover building that is most likely the MBRD you are seeking
-The MBRD is too big and heavily guarded for Horace to steal
-He describes what seems to be an Athropod Shocktrooper Kit (ASK)
-An ASK could transform anyone of your hatched offspring (or yourself!) into a better killing machine
-He describes what seems to be an Emergency Specialist Kit (ESK)
-An ESK could grant you or one of your offspring the knowledge to build and maintain Arthropod Technology
-Horace speculates that he could easily steal one of the smaller Arthropod artifacts
-Horace informs you that any theft in the Hoover building will be discovered by dawn
You lean in close and stare your son in the eyes. Sending him to work to retrieve Arthropod technology risks detection, but the payoff would be huge. You are out of birthing protein and could really use the services of a mosquito however... Sudenly your train of thought is interupted by your human interface system. It is ready to upgrade, however it has discerned that one of the genetic samples you have encountered shows signs of Overmind tampering...
Human Interface Update
You have reached human interface level 2
You have reached human interface level 3
You can now apply the 'brood' upgrade to your moth larva! Moth larva produced at the same time are considered broodmates. Infested humans attract and care for their broodmates during the development process. Broodmates share a weak psychic connection that keeps them awhare of each others location and stress level. Broodmates develop almost identical personalities to allow for better coordination
Pick Two of the following pheromone upgrade options:
A: Upgrade the Prototype Human Control Pheromone
B: Upgrade the sleep pheromone
C: Gain a pheromone to influence human reproductive urges
D: Gain a pheromone to increase birthing protein production in humans
E: Gain a pheromone to influence the human digestive system
Pick one of the following larva upgrade options:
F: Apply the brood upgrade to the larva of your choice
G: Upgrade the basic mosquito design
H: Upgrade the basic moth design
I: Upgrade the basic spider design
J: Gain the ability to create Arthropods focused on transport
K: Gain the ability to create Arthropods focused on combat
L: Gain the ability to create Arthropods capable of processing and destroying organic waste/evidence
You must interface with 5 more humans to level up
Knowledge
All knowledge is measured in standard information units (SAU)
2 SAU human psychology
150 SAU general human interaction
500 SAU human biology
500 SAU Athropod biology
500 MBRD opperation
300 SAU Athropod medicine
100 SAU energy weapon opperation
50 SAU energy weapon repair
150 SAU human martial arts
Inventory
1 Syringe of emergency birthing proteins
1 MBRD control node (Disguised as a fully functional laptop)
1 Athropod Matter Fragmenter (Disguised as pen, 2 uses left)
1 Packages of Protein Fungus spores (Need to be cultivated in a dark and damp location)
4 Sets of everyday female human clothing
1 set of athletic female human clothing
1 set of human sleepwear
1 set of alluring human female sleepwear
1 set of alluring human female swimwear
1 Backpack of textbooks and school supplies
$70000 in cold hard human cash (Stashed in a briefcase)
Known NPC's
Blue means you can contact this individual
Orange means that this infested individual is under your control
Maria, a geeky pupa freshman. Your roommate.
Horace Greece, an elderly pupa. He works in the hoover building at night.
John, an uninfested human sophomore involved in sports.
Laura, an uninfested human freshman. Your suitemate.
Joan, an uninfested and very young human freshman. Your suitemate.
Joe, an uninfested math professor involved in the sports program.
Dr. Edmund Crane, you uninfested English professor.
Manny Jimenez, your uninfested and strict psychology instructor.
Dr. Jerald White, your uninfested computer science instructor.
James, an uninfested human freshman. Your human minds crush.
Mellisa, an uninfested freshman who lives in your building.
Tarn, an uninfested senior on the verge of graduation.
Marylin, an uninfested human senior. Your nosy RA.
Notes
It is now Wednesday night. The next turn will last for however long Democrabrain says it should. You have two class and no homework due tomorrow.
-Intro to computer science, 9:00am - 11:00am
-Psychology 101, 11:30am - 1:00pm
-Nobody has responded to your bathroom solicitation graffiti today
-You are out of birthing protein! You still have your emergency supply of 1 unit of birthing protein stashed away.
Full Biological update will come after upgrade voting concludes.
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